In March, the Indonesian Ministry of Environment and Forestry announced it had broken up a smuggling ring that had taken 41 Komodo dragons from the island where they were sold abroad for upwards of $35,000 US, CNN reports.

Only Komodo Island will be closed to the public. The surrounding park will remain open, according to The Telegraph.

But officials plan to cap the overall number of visitors to the park to 5,000 a month after a tourist allegedly tossed a cigarette in the park last summer, starting a fire that scorched 10 hectares of land.